Monthly Archives: April 2012

I’m guest blogging today at Dad or Alive, the hilarious and wildly popular blog written by Adrian Kulp. If you don’t already follow him, you should! Here’s how the post starts… It’s 10pm and you’re feeling frisky. The mother of your children is just inches away from you in bed looking saucy in her, um, […]

My daughter, the great eater, loves chicken – grilled chicken, roasted chicken, chicken enchiladas, chicken dumplings, you name it. One hitch: when it comes to making chicken – I’m chicken. I became a vegetarian at 7 when I suddenly realized that those cute, mouthy animals from Old McDonald’s Farm were the same ones on my […]

First, thanks for all the love and support around my weaning crisis. It helped a lot. I’ve officially stopped breastfeeding and I have to say it was probably harder on me (and Dave, who had to put up with me) than on Viv. She is still getting used to the new routine but I […]

I just breastfed my daughter for the last time, and my heart is breaking. We had a good run – 15 months – but I wasn’t quite ready to stop, and I’m not sure she was either. Later this week, I’ll begin injecting myself with fertility drugs, which apparently are the only way to make […]

Every time my daughter and I go out to eat, we leave behind a disaster area. I haven’t had the balls to photograph the crime scene yet (too busy running out the door of the restaurant, shielding my face) so just imagine if the food fight in Animal House took place in a landfill. What […]